Industry
Moody’s joins S&P in calling for gas price hike
05 Oct 2015
Pesticide residues found in 12.5% of Indian food samples
03 Oct 2015
Identifying a major health hazard, the government has found residues of pesticides in a significant proportion of vegetables, fruits, milk and other food items collected from various retail and wholesale outlets across the country
Mondelez mulls sale of European cheese, grocery businesses
03 Oct 2015
The move comes over a year after Mondelez agreed to split its coffee unit and merge it with that of rival DE Master Blenders 1753
‘112’ soon to be pan-India emergency No
03 Oct 2015
Mining, oil exploration threat to almost a third of natural World Heritage Sites: Study
03 Oct 2015
According to research from the World Wide Fund for Nature and asset managers Aviva Investors and Investec, 70 out of the 229 natural World Heritage Sites are at risk from extractive industries
Bengal, Odisha in bitter battle over 'rosogolla’
01 Oct 2015
West Bengal has submitted an application for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the rosogolla, to stake its claim on the sugary delicacy to beat rival claimant Odisha
Metals firm Alcoa to split into two publicly traded entities
30 Sep 2015
The split would happen in the second half of 2016 with the legacy aluminum firm retaining the name Alcoa
India slashes natural gas price by 16% to $4.24 per mmBtu
30 Sep 2015
Even at the current price of $5.61 per mmBtu, gas price in India is already among the lowest in Asia Pacific
US media analytics firms ComScore, Rentrak to merge in $800-mn deal
30 Sep 2015
Both media analytics firms hope to create a leading cross-platform measurement company to take on rival Nielsen Holdings
Reynolds American to sell Natural American Spirit brand to Japan Tobacco for $5 bn
29 Sep 2015
US tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc today struck a deal to sell the international rights to its additive-free Natural American Spirit brand outside the US to the Japan Tobacco Group of companies
Burger King to buy Belgian-based burger chain Quick Group
29 Sep 2015
Burger King, fast-food chain, France, Quick Group, Olivier Bertrand, private-equity firm, Qualium Investissement
India puts off larger warnings on tobacco packs
29 Sep 2015
India has decided to delay implementation of bigger health warnings on tobacco packaging by a year until April 2016, as pressure mounts on New Delhi to take urgent steps to reduce tobacco consumption
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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